On Voynich Alphabet Analysis With Relation to the Old Indian Dialects
Abstract
This paper is discussing our new research direction in the Voynich manuscript research. While our previous papers have been dealing with the research that has been based on fractal property analyses or graph properties analyses, where the graph has been constructed from the Voynich manuscript word sequences (Fig. 1), this paper discusses another kind of research on Voynich manuscript. This research is focused on the compassion of the letters or alphabets from Voynich manuscript with another selected alphabets from a different dialect, in that case, dialect from the Indian language. The reason is to point out the possibility that we can identify the origin of the Voynich manuscript alphabets based on the graphical conversion between letters from different dialects. Because this research is a very wide and deep topic, we publish in this paper only basic ideas, simulations and discuss all problems which have been found during those experimentation as well as outlining of the future directions of the research in an outlined way.
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